THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND EARLY CAPITALISM

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    Firts Industrial Revolution

  • Invention of the steam engine (James Watt)

  • Publication of An Inquiry into the Nature and causes of the wealth of nations, by Adam Smith

  • Invention of the locomotive (George Stephenson)

  • Approval of the Enclosure Acts

  • Invention of the Bessemer converter(Henry Bessemer)

  • Inventrion of the telephone (Antonio Meucii)

  • Invention of the combustion engine

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    Second Industrial Revolution

  • Presentation of the telephone by Alexander Graham

  • Invention of the light bulb (Thomas Alva Edison)

  • Presentation of the first automobile (Carl Friedrich Benz)

  • Wireless telegraph (Guglielmo Marconi)

  • Fight of the Wright Brothers

  • Beginning of production of the ford model T (Henry Ford)